Chapter 676 Rent Reduction
The officials of Dali Temple did not expect Mrs. De Rui to be so miserable. If she had not been lucky, she would have died long ago.
After testing, it was found that the poison did exist, and the poison was as effective as Mrs. Wu said.
The evidence was conclusive, and Xu Jiasheng could not defend himself, so he had no choice but to admit the crime.
Xu Jiasheng committed murder to pay for his life. The evidence was conclusive, so Qiu Hou asked for execution.
The punishment for Mr. Qian's loan sharking was very severe in this dynasty, and he was also punished by the Queen of Autumn.
The second young son of the Xu family bullies men and dominates women, and takes human life lightly. This is also a death sentence, and he will be executed after the fall.
The eldest son of the Xu family passed off a good product, defrauded him, received a fifty-year cane, and served fifteen years in a quarry.
The three daughters-in-law of the Xu family usually did not do good things. They allowed their slaves to occupy the people's mulberry fields and forced the people to sell their sons and daughters. They were given thirty sticks, returned the people's fields, compensated for the losses, and were exiled to Lingnan.
The third young master of the Xu family has been studying hard these years. He originally thought he had done no evil, but after careful investigation, it was discovered that he had killed the best student in the school.
Just because the master kept praising that student, and then turned around and criticized the third son of the Xu family.
The third eldest son of the Xu family takes the exam every year, but every year he falls short of being a boy, that is, he fails to pass the exam as a scholar.
So after learning that the student surnamed Cai was admitted as a scholar and ranked first, I held a grudge.
While Cai Xiucai was drunk and rushing home, he pushed the person into the pond and drowned him alive due to his drunkenness.
Originally, the third son of the Xu family thought that if he didn't tell anyone, no one would know the truth.
He never expected that another scholar who was entertaining Cai Xiucai at that time was worried that Cai Xiucai was drunk and followed him.
I happened to see Xu Laosan push Cai Xiucai into the river.
He wanted to come out to save people, but thinking that the Xu family was rich and powerful, no one would believe him if he said it. Instead, Xu Laosan would kill him and silence him.
Watching Cai Xiucai drown before his eyes.
He was also a scholar, restless and haggard all day long. He originally thought that he would be like this for the rest of his life and would never be able to redress his grievances.
He never expected that the Xu family would be ransacked, so Liu Xiucai immediately wrote a petition and went to complain.
Originally, Magistrate Yuan was planning to acquit the third son of the Xu family, but with this document, he immediately interrogated the third son of the Xu family, and then used some tricks to get out the words of the third son of the Xu family.
Coupled with Liu Xiucai's words, the third son of the Xu family changed his face drastically when he saw Liu Xiucai talking about that night. In the end, he did not survive the interrogation and ended up being charged.
Good guy, the third son of the Xu family was also sentenced to death.
Seeing that the Xu family only had three children of a few years old, Liu Pan'er felt that the adults' evildoing had little to do with the children, and she had no grudge against these children.
Furthermore, the oldest of these children was only five years old. When they grew up, they could not remember what happened when they were young, so they directly ordered people to send all the children of the Xu family to other places, to families without children.
Those concubines of the Xu family who committed crimes were punished in the same way, and those who did not commit crimes were directly charged into the official slaves.
None of the Xu family's servants were kept, and all were sold.
Half of them were slaves left by the Liu family, but these people bullied Liu Yun'er more than other servants of the Xu family to show their loyalty.
If that's the case, then let's sell them out together with their master.
This month, Magistrate Yuan and people from Dali Temple have been trying this case.
On the contrary, Liu Pan'er avoided suspicion and took her children to live in a large village belonging to the Liu family. Then she had people open up wasteland, use sand and gravel for insulation, reduce water evaporation, and change the local farming methods.
After tens of thousands of acres of wasteland were developed, sugar beets, corn, and wheat were grown using new planting methods.
When planting spring wheat, the seeds are early-maturing, lodging-resistant, and high-yield varieties obtained by Liu Paner from the space. It only takes eighty or ninety days to mature and harvest.
This kind of wheat is most suitable for spring planting in the north. It is drought-tolerant and requires only a small amount of water.
Coupled with the sand and gravel on the surface, rainwater can be stored as much as possible after it rains, which is more conducive to the growth of wheat.
Farmers in the north shook their heads when they saw Mrs. Dre planting wheat. They might as well plant corn, at least they could harvest several hundred kilograms.
In the past, they also planted wheat, but the harvest from one acre of land was less than 100 kilograms. It even died of drought and there was no harvest.
However, Liu Paner did not listen to the farmers and insisted on planting.
Although it will take Liu Paner's time to tidy up the Xu family, spring plowing in the north is also particularly important.
Liu Pan'er took over the Liu family's property and urged the tenants to plow the land in time.
Li Rong took the account book and said to her mother: "Mom, look at this Xu Jiasheng, he is simply a vampire. Tenants rent land and need to pay 60% of the rent. The cost of planting is as high as 20%, but only 20% falls into the hands of the tenants.
, not even close to that.”
Liu Pan'er also saw it and was very angry, "The black-hearted ghost is used to describe these people. They are so bad."
"Mom, should we charge less?" Li Rong asked, "Such a heavy rent is so inhumane."
Liu Pan'er nodded, "Yes, only 30%."
When the servant passed these words of Liu Pan'er to the tenants below.
The tenants, who were originally worried, suddenly became less nervous after learning that Liu Paner only charged 30% of the rent.
Compared with the 60% stipulated by Xu Jiasheng, it dropped to half.
The family's annual output can be half that of previous years, and life can be easier.
"Thank you, Mrs. Derry!" Everyone knelt on the ground to thank.
Seeing the farmer's grateful expression, Liu Pan'er reassured, "The Xu family is not benevolent. My Liu family is a benevolent family. The 30% rent charge was originally set by my grandfather. I am just recovering now."
"As long as everyone works hard, I promise that the price for purchasing silk will also increase, allowing everyone to increase their income and make their lives better."
Liu Paner's words completely reassured the silkworm farmers.
Taking over the following industries was also extremely smooth.
The people below can get more output, which is a good thing, of course they are willing.
Along the way, Liu Paner saw adults and children climbing up mulberry trees to pick mulberry leaves. From time to time, some people slipped and some even fell from the trees.
Suddenly, she thought of the dwarf mulberry trees she had seen in her previous life. They were arranged in rows, two or three meters tall at most. By stretching out the mulberry branches and bending them down, she could reach the top of the tree from below. There was no need to climb the tree at all.
In winter, then prune the mulberry branches to keep the mulberry tree from growing taller. In addition, the mulberry branches can be used to burn fires.
Mulberry bark can also be used to twist ropes.
Children like mulberries the most, they are sweet.
At this time, Liu Pan'er felt something strange in the space and took a peek. It turned out that there were many mulberry saplings inside.
Liu Pan'er smiled when she saw those mulberry saplings. The space is really considerate. Whatever she needs, she will send it to them.
Chapter completed!